Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl GTRexclude Alongside the Sovereign Military Order

Alongside the Sovereign Military Order of Malta it is the sole international Catholic Order which still has this status today

flanked on each side by raised and finely-detailed laurel branches

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Constructed of silvered stamped zink

the obverse bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a black and gilt Hohenzoller imperial eagle clutching an orb and sceptre

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl GTRexclude Alongside the Sovereign Military Order(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension maker marked